STARRY NIGHT: Stars made streaks in the night sky above the Andean volcano Tungurahua in the early morning Friday in Cotalo, Ecuador. Authorities gave 3,000 masks to residents living in areas affected by ashes. (Jose Jacome/EFE/Zuma Press)

SPLASH OF COLOR: Dancer Shen Wei, a winner of an Audi Arts and Design Award, gave a performance at the award ceremony in Beijing Thursday. The award focuses on Chinese contemporary arts and design. (Meng Yongmin/Xinhua/Zuma Press)

ELECTION TIME: An election worker looked out from a bus that was transporting ballot boxes and polling booths in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday. Pakistan’s general elections will be held Saturday. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

CULTURE CLASH: Members of the group of female Jewish worshipers known as ‘Women of the Wall’ held a prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Friday. A crowd of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators outraged by the use of prayer shawls and phylacteries traditionally restricted to men threw rocks and bottles at the women. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

CAREFUL HANDLING: Two soldiers dug a hole in the sand in which unexploded ordinances could be safely detonated at a site near Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday. (Tobin Jones/African Union-United Nations IST/EPA)

LOOKING AT HISTORY: Sarah Kiedron of auction house Lyon and Turnbull looked through a hole in a letter to be auctioned off May 13 in Edinburgh. Midshipman Robinson served onboard HMS Mars and wrote the letter to his mother, who lived in Edinburgh, eight days after the action at the Battle of Trafalgar, describing the battle and his part in it. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)